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Cooking...of course!
Cooking...of course!
You might think that an Italian who likes cooking is the ultimate cliché. Perhaps it is, but I love cooking everything, especially Asian dished (in the picture, the art of folding Chinese dumplings in Anshan, Liaoning Province).
My PhD was a good time to keep trying to perfect my sourdough bread and make pies and cakes I don't really eat.
Make me a mug for that tea
Make me a mug for that tea
I have always loved brews of camelia sinensis and a few years ago I started studying tea with the Canadian Tea Association. I mostly drink Chinese and Taiwanese teas, and particularly love oolong and raw pu’er teas, which I brew in dedicated teapots.
Doing a PhD is hard, but throwing a decent bowl on a pottery wheel comes to a close second. I have been doing pottery on and off for about two years. It helps to take my mind off things, while always offering new challenges!
In the photo, the creation I am most proud of so far. It might sound funny, but a (somewhat) cylindrical shape is much harder to make than a bowl!
Somehow, besides linguistics, I have managed to cultivate many passions over the years (in some I am decent, in others meh at best): yoga, hiking, travelling, photography, watercolors, and knitting. I also enjoy reading fiction and watching opera, ballet, and ice hockey (I am a big Caps fan).
In the picture, our family dog Kessy hiking in the Alps (Valsavarenche). In the background on the left, the Gran Paradiso with its 4,061 m.
In the picture on top of the page, a banana on the Great Wall, Jinshanling (October 2019). *Not an intentional (ironic) rebuttal to Cattelan's Comedian.*
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